Meet Jesse Willis, the Colorado Democratic Party’s mysterious “tracker” who has filmed Republican candidates at events around the state — from a GOP gubernatorial campaign event in Denver in July to the Teller Tea Party’s U.S. Senate candidates’ forum in Woodland Park last weekend. (His mug is in this week’s issue on page 25.)

Denver City Councilman Rick Garcia has been appointed as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Region 8 director, which oversees the states of Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Utah.

A new groundbreaking series featured on television and the Internet — “Colorado Election 2010 TM” — had its debut on Feb. 1, on COMCAST Entertainment Television at 8:00 pm. The nonpartisan series offers citizens the opportunity to hear candidates and both current and former major elected officials in an unrehearsed, substantive manner. More programs have been dedicated to the candidates and issues than has ever been done in the history of television, according to Aaron Harber, moderator of the series.

A local political watchdog group has filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Steve King, R-Grand Junction, concerning travel expenses that may have been reimbursed twice, once by his campaign and once by the state.

Lisa Hill’s tattered and torn poster proclaiming “Gov. of, by and for the people” has seen these steps before. The self-proclaimed tea party member drove an hour and a half from Pine to the Capitol in an effort to “stop socialized medicine.”

His grandfather, William H. McNichols, was Denver’s auditor for 24 years; his uncle Bill was Denver’s mayor from 1968-1983; and his father, Stephen, was Colorado’s Democratic governor for six years after serving as lieutenant governor and state senator.